Joe McNally Quotes

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

I always carry my camera with me.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

I take a lot of pictures.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side of it and that part of the filmmaking world and I enjoy developing things. It's an area that I'll continue to be more active in as time goes by.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

I get very close to people when I'm shooting them.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

The camera gives you some control.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.